[ale] robots

[Pete Hardie]

Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 16:38, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > I just remember that Cabbage Patch doll that was supposed to 'eat' plastic
> > food, and it turned out to be possible to get a finger caught in the
> > mechanism.
> 
> Well, what do you want to use, BIG FRICKIN' LASERS?? :-)

Flamethrowers.


> > Actually, getting the twigs out sounds like a great task for another bot -
> > with a much simpler design, since it needs only rake and area, and have a
> > 'home base' to rake the debris to.
> 
> Well, but you're making a huge complexity jump.  The hypothetical mowing
> bot I'm talking about would not even really know anything about grass;
> it would just creep around and just sort of happen to be cutting grass.
> You're talking about matters of detection at a distance (home base) that
> can certainly be addressed, but only by upping the complexity a lot.

I wasn't thinking of anything too complex - the RakeBot just has an out path
that is semi-random, and a return path to a beacon.  However, the power budget
might need to be markedly greater to overcome the friction of debris.


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